New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2022
JQR 112.3 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2022
JQR 112.2 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2022
JQR 112.1 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
Simcha Gross and Avigail Manekin-Bamberger introduce Aramaic incantation bowls that draw on rabbinic and elite literary sources, forcing a reevaluation of the “popular” religion traditionally ascribed to the bowls.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2021
JQR 111.4 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
Bricks without Mortar: Looking at Lists
Hair Dye
Wet Cat food
Bra, tights
Vodka
Kicking off the 2021–2022 Katz Center Public Programs
Each year, the Katz Center offers a lineup of public programs to share the fruits of scholarly research with wider audiences. Open to everyone, these lectures feature current fellows along with colleagues from across the field talking about new and critical issues in Jewish studies.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2021
JQR 111.2 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
Ayelet Hoffman Libson argues that the Tosefta’s novel institution of blessings over commandments served a legal and political function, denoting legal personhood and delineating the borders of the community.
Katz Center’s Becky Friedman on Jews and Jewishness in English Renaissance Drama
Steven P. Weitzman (SPW): Becky, first of all, I have to convey a huge congratulations on completing your doctorate. It is quite an accomplishment to have completed a dissertation while working full time at the Katz Center and living through a pandemic.
The Case of Jewish History
A few weeks ago, the Katz Center presented the 23rd annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture at Penn, featuring a conversation between Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato on the topic of microhistory and global history.